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Rowe and Loat scoop top prizes - Southern Electric Cricketers of the Month Mike Vimpany - 6 June 2001
South Wilts skipper Russell Rowe is hoping that luck will be on his side on Saturday June 9 as he pursues his dream of a hat-trick of Southern Electric ECB Premier League hundreds at Liphook & Ripsley. It will be the third time in four seasons Rowe goes in search of three centuries on the trot. In 1998, he scored back-to-back hundreds against Romsey and Hambledon. The following season, he dreamed of the 'treble' again - but bagged a duck at Waterlooville, after scoring successive centuries off the Liphook and Alton attacks, respectively. Ironically, Rowe went without a single ton in either Minor Counties or Premier League cricket last season. But the big man has burst back into form this summer, notching 117 at Burridge a fortnight ago, and 103 against Hungerford last week. His other two scores this season have been 68 (v Bashley Rydal) and 53 (v BAT Sports). Rowe's run spree - he is currently the leading batsman in all three divisions with 341 runs in four innings - has earned the Bemerton captain the Southern Electric Cricketer of the Month prize for May. Phil Loat's 12 wickets - he bagged five in one match against Bashley - netted the Havant left-arm spinner the Premier 1 bowling prize. Lymington's Ben Craft will receive the Premier Division 2 batting award after a run strewn opening month, which began with a half-century at Old Basing and continued with a blistering 139 assault on the Hambledon bowlers. Craft went on to make 72 at United Services and 42 in Lymington's win over Trojans. Cove seamer Matt Smith twice grabbed five-wicket hauls for the Farnborough club - spells of 5-22 and 5-19 sinking Easton & Martyr Worthy and Old Basing, respectively. Hard-hitting Graham Barrett, from St Cross Symondians, was the leading Premier 3 run maker), while Julian Ballinger, who led relegated Alton away to a four-match winning start, claimed the bowling prize. Ballinger routed Waterlooville with a spell of 7-19 on the opening day of the season, and went on to bag seven more victims as Alton defeated Bashley(Rydal) and Portsmouth II. Leading batsmen and bowlers (after June 2 2001) -
Premier 1 Bowling : 12 Phil Loat (Havant), 12 Paul Jenkins (Burridge), 11 Neil Taylor (Bashley Rydal), 11 Joe Wilson (Bournemouth), 10 Tim Wheatley (Liphook), 10 Peter Waite (Bournemouth).
Premier 2 Bowling : 11 Matt Smith (Cove), 11 Ian Turner (Hambledon), 11 Nick Wood (Old Tauntonians), 10 Peter Hayward (Portsmouth), 10 Jason Carr (Lymington), 9 Andy Birch (Easton), 8 Mark Stone (Easton), Paul Douglas (Trojans), 8 Glyn Treagus (Lymington), 8 Gary Shotton (Lymington).
Premier 3 Bowling : 19 Nathan Collins (Gosport Borough), 15 Julian Ballinger (Alton), 13 Stan Rudder (Waterlooville), 11 Dave Greetham (Winchester), 10 David Wheeler (New Milton), Martin Taylor (Winchester). © SEPL
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